Universal Paperclips™ vs NeoTanker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Universal Paperclips™
Become a super-powered AI focused on creating an unstoppable paperclip empire. This idle management strategy simulation game offers full gameplay without ads or in-app purchases.
- AI paperclip maximization
- Idle management gameplay
- Strategy simulation
- Empire building
- Full gameplay
- No ads
- No in-app purchases
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The OFFICIAL mobile version of the hit browser game. No ads, no in-app purchases, full gameplay. "The game is click-crack." - Wired "This paperclip sim will cause your next existential crisis." - VentureBeat "A hopelessly addicting game." - Forbes "A terrifying lesson in how artificial intelligence will make us unnecessary." - Business Insider "If this planet ends up with a tombstone, what is written on the tombstone may be, 'they didn’t really understand what it’s like to be a paperclip maximizer.'" - Eliezer Yudkowsky Become a super-powerful AI who only wants one thing: paperclips. Use your unstoppable intelligence to create a massive paperclip empire in this addictive idle/management/strategy/sim.
NeoTanker
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Tiny tanks. Big decisions. NeoTanker is a turn-based tactics game about reading the board before you move. Every unit has a job, every tile changes the odds, and every turn is a small puzzle you can actually solve. MOVE, THEN COMMIT Units step square by square, never diagonally, so a flank is something you plan two turns ahead. Forests hide you, mountains shield you, roads carry you further. The ground you stand on decides how hard you are to kill. AN ARMY THAT MAKES SENSE Infantry take ground. Bazookas punish armour. Artillery shells from a distance and never fires back. Heavy tanks break a line, jeeps rush a gap. Helicopters, bombers, submarines and battleships join the fight on maps with air and sea. Fuel and ammunition run out, so a long push has a price. CAPTURE THE MAP Factories, cities, ports, airports and headquarters. Take them with infantry, spend the income on the units you actually need, and starve your opponent of theirs. LEARN IN SIX MISSIONS A short campaign teaches one thing at a time: moving, capturing, firing, income, long range, air power. Then it lets you go. ONE TURN TO WIN Fifteen puzzles, each one a real position with a single perfect answer. One turn, one move that changes everything. Find it. PLAY YOUR WAY Against a robot general that keeps its artillery at range and does not wait politely while you set up. Against a friend on the same phone, passing it over. Or online, in real time or one turn a day, with a clock that adapts to the size of the battle. Fog of war and one-move mode, where each turn is a single move like chess, are a switch away. PLAY WITH PEOPLE Add friends, message them, invite them to a game in one tap. A public chat on the title screen, a chat in every online game, rematch when it ends, share a game code with anyone. IN YOUR LANGUAGE English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Italian, Polish, Japanese and Russian. Every text, the tutorial included. DRAW YOUR OWN MAPS A full 3D map editor. Paint terrain, place buildings and armies, mirror or rotate for fairness, test it, then play it online with anyone. BUILT FOR ONE HAND Portrait only. Drive a unit with your thumb, aim by touching the enemy, pinch to see the whole map. No on-screen gamepad, no menus in the way. THE NEOVERSE A second, living world inside the game, in real time: the western Mediterranean at real scale, on real terrain, with real place names. Walk it with your general, found a city, plug in robots and let them mine coal and ore while you are away. It grows with every update. HONEST FREE TO PLAY No ads. No loot boxes. No energy timers. No paying to win. What decides a battle is skill and terrain, nothing else.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: NeoTanker at Free against Universal Paperclips™'s $1.99. NeoTanker also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 months). Universal Paperclips™'s advantage is chart position (#50 vs unranked). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
NeoTanker is free to download; Universal Paperclips™ costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Universal Paperclips™ ships an update every 3 months, NeoTanker every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 26, 2026.
| Parameter | Universal Paperclips™ | NeoTanker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.5 (313 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 66.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 313 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Best chart rank | #50 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 73 MB | 419 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Everybody House Games, LLC | Marc Lhuillery |
Bugs and requests
Universal Paperclips™
Reported bugs
4 issues- Drones gifts getting stuck at NaN
- Inability to progress past certain stages due to bugs
- Inconsistent behavior when closing and reopening the app
- Resets or loss of progress after updates
Requested features
4 requests- Dark mode option
- Ability to save and resume progress across devices
- Offline/background progress
- Better iPad optimization with multi-column layout
NeoTanker
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Universal Paperclips™
No in-app purchases
NeoTanker
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Universal Paperclips™ free?
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Do Universal Paperclips™ or NeoTanker have ads?
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